All tigered up
It's a long weekend.. a good time to (1) buy an external firewire drive and finally make a solid backup of my entire powerbook.. and (2) upgrade to the newest version of OSX.
I bought a 200GB maxtor external hard drive for $199.. good deal.. and handy for backups, has a nifty "one touch backup" functionality with OSX, it looks like it may be using rsync underneath.. at least the behaviour is similar.
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Widgets are like crack?
Posted by: Mike | May 30, 2005 03:19 AM
BTW, this HDD enclosure rocks:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16817145656
Internal drives are cheaper, then I use rsync manually.
Posted by: mike | May 30, 2005 03:22 AM
Yah, like crack, as in addicting!
Posted by: kasia | May 30, 2005 09:41 AM
rsync doesn't handle things like resource forks, though. The OSX developer tools come with a tool called 'CpMac' which will copy both forks of a file, and I wrote a little script which uses it to maintain a live backup and also does some rudimentary revision control, at http://trikuarecx/code/backup.sh
Posted by: fluffy | May 30, 2005 12:11 PM
Tiger's rsync does resource forks. read the man page. You must use the -E option. this is for tiger only of course.
Posted by: Jay | June 1, 2005 08:22 AM